Recycled/Reused/ Reammended/Reloaded/ Reupped/Retarded

[moses wellfleet]

I love persimilis, really cool little bright orange spiders. It always amazes me how fast they can move. I sit and watch them preying on the mites! Best thing is they do all the work!

I bet they love it under your LEDS as they sometimes take strain in hot dry conditions associated with an HPS flowering room.

 

[Lapides]

Bro, I’m right there with ya...!!!...

Same deal, Organic - perpetual garden, I don’t want to spray nothing...
only thing I’ve been using for veg plants or plants that are only a week into flower is Organiside I think it’s called... from Home Depot...!!!...
Plus, I just search the plants up and down, on tops of the leaves and the bottom of the leaves... stems and all. When I find them I pinch them with my fingers...!!!...

It’s been a few months now and I’m finally happy to say that “like you” I think I may almost have them beat...!!!...

I only have a few seedlings in veg at the moment and plants in the flower room only have a few here or there on one or two of the plants ... so that’s good...!!!...

As long as I stay at it on a constant basis and check over the plants they don’t get too bad ...!!!... fingers crossed... lol.

They really are a pain in the ass.


This grow is literally in the woods and I have to go from outdoors, directly into the flowering room. Springtime and Fall are the worst for me and spider mites because they are everywhere outside and I inevitably bring them in. I just have to be a little more proactive with the predators when spring and fall break.

I love persimilis, really cool little bright orange spiders. It always amazes me how fast they can move. I sit and watch them preying on the mites! Best thing is they do all the work!

I bet they love it under your LEDS as they sometimes take strain in hot dry conditions associated with an HPS flowering room.

They've been doing ok for me. I think they perform optimally around 75F and 70% humidity. I've been trying to match my environment to what they prefer, but that high of humidity in a sealed room really scares me. PM and budrot and all that bullshit that comes with higher RH. I have my dehui controller set at 65% and it seems that may even be too dry for them. I released some Amblyseius fallacis over 2 weeks ago that are still around. The persimilis I released a week ago seem to have died out unfortunately. That being said, I do have another 10,000 persimilis on the way because I love how voracious they are and I think they will get me to where I'm comfortable again.




I took some pictures tonight.
Shire at 21 days(still not sure if it's the original or 2.0, I had both and lost one and got confused with labels at the time I lost one)

ChemD at 21 days

TresDawg keeper. One of the wedding gifts Money Mike gave my wife and I was a pack of Tres Dawg Bx's. My wife popped the whole pack and found this one I told her she should keep. I ran it twice more and while it was fire, it didn't really yield a lot. So I decided not to run it again after the 3rd time and didn't keep any clones. Wouldn't you know, the 3rd time was the charm. I fed it a bit more than the previous times and it BLEW UP. THANKFULLY, it revegged successfully and I was able to get some clones from it.



This plant is the second time it's been flowered, 37 days from flip -

GG4 at 31 days -

 

[Benny106]

That tres dawg looks dank glad you caught her.

 

[Mars Hydro Led]

These girls look great. they become frosty. Nice work.

 

[moses wellfleet]

Plants look excellent tho...

Yeah I have only been successful with persimilis in veg because of their climate preference. I have got them to stick around and breed for up to six months I think it was. Another option is swirskii sachets which are more robust in terms of climate, they were originally not thought to eat spidermites but I’m pretty sure they do after years of using them mainly for broad mites.

I remember you measured 800ppm co2 coming from your soil beds a while back, so was surprised to see you are now dosing with co2?

 

[cocktail frank]

Looking great in here Lappy!!!!

 

[Desert Dan]

T.T.I.T.S.

-DD

 

[Lapides]

wow, it's been awhile. how have you all been?

 

[Lapides]

new spot

 

[Vanilla Phoenix]

Looking good dude! Glad to see you around.

How are you liking the LEDS?

 

[Lapides]

Looking good dude! Glad to see you around.

How are you liking the LEDS?

hey man, thanks! good to see you!

LEDs were quite a learning curve for me. it was hard for me to accept that my plants were getting too much light.
it wasn't until i got a proper light meter and started gradually increasing the intensity 100ppfd once a week that i was finally growing properly again.
overall they're great, i love them.

it took awhile to get this place set up and I've been busy with the family the past few years. i was barely getting by with the grow for a long time. it's nice to finally be performing to my potential again.

 

[Vanilla Phoenix]

Glad you’re back on track. Their room looks awesome. Did you setup any irrigation?

i got a barn I’m building and still can’t decide if I’m gonna stick with the old trusty hps lighting or make the switch to led. The main thing stopping me from making the switch is I keep seeing ppl say that led flower isn’t as good as hps. I’ve never had led flower so hard for me to judge.

 

[Lapides]

Glad you’re back on track. Their room looks awesome. Did you setup any irrigation?

i got a barn I’m building and still can’t decide if I’m gonna stick with the old trusty hps lighting or make the switch to led.. The main thing stopping me from making the switch is I keep seeing ppl say that led flower isn’t as good as hps. I’ve never had led flower so hard for me to judge.

Sick, a barn sounds fun!

I think I've been growing for around 25 years now and I would never switch back to HIDs.

I definitely have not noticed a decrease in quality, even when I was giving them too much light.

The efficiency of LEDs is so insane that growing with HIDs is like caveman to me.

I've spoken to plenty of folks that refuse to believe it's true and I just have to change the subject and talk about something else.

 

[dank.frank]

Great to see you back at it, Lap! Have always loved watching you work.



dank.Frank

 

[ARTofMAKINGfire]

Damn Lappy! Looking quite nice. Hope all is well with you and the fam!

I been back at it a while now... we gotta catch up

 

[Lapides]

Great to see you back at it, Lap! Have always loved watching you work.



dank.Frank

Shit, I was never NOT at it homie, just only recently found some time to say hi to you all

Damn Lappy! Looking quite nice. Hope all is well with you and the fam!

I been back at it a while now... we gotta catch up

Thanks Artie, it's great seeing you! We are all doing great brother and I hope the same for you and your family. Definitely hit me up when you're around, PM if you don't have my number anymore.



Honestly though, nothing I have been growing for the past 4 years has been worthy of ICMAG.
FOREVER, my number one love on this earth was cannabis. I never thought there would be anything else that I could or would care so much about. Then my wife and I had an amazing little girl. That girl immediately become the number one most amazing thing on the planet to me. So much of my energy that I put into growing herb was now being put into growing this little girl.

I got plagued by so many fucked up problems in the grow over these past 4 years. Spider mites, powdery mildew, root knot nematodes. ROOT KNOT FUCKING NEMATODES??!! Have you ever even heard of such a fucking thing? Try growing in recycled soil with root knot nematodes crawling all through your soil and having no idea what root knot nematodes are. I was running in circles for at least a year with that one. I COULD NOT BELIEVE that something that once came so natural to me is now killing me every single run. I wanted to quit every fucking time, it made me so angry and frustrated you would not believe. But I kept taking clones and I kept building that room and I just kept growing.

That amazing little girl is 5 now. She's basically on autopilot now and she's pretty easy to keep in line. We have a boy who is just as amazing and he just turned one. The room is finished and, to answer your question I forgot about Vanilla Phoenix, yeah I have blumats setup for irrigation. So the room is finally on autopilot now for the most part too. It took forever for me to get 650ish gallons of soil mixed to fill the 4 beds with a fulltime job and a family but I won't have to do that again for awhile.

I'm super stoked on the room. I epoxy'd the floors. It is INCREDIBLY well insulated. The beds are on rollers that I built with casters (12 each) and 2x4s that I also coated in epoxy. I have a 27 gallon reservoir in the attic for the blumats that has a float valve and I just top it off with a hose every day. I have enough room, electricity, and cooling capacity for 2 more 4x4 beds and 3 more 2x4 beds. However, I don't know if I have enough room to veg and dry any more than what I am flowering now. BUT, my wife and I have almost exclusively been dabbing lately and would like to keep it that way, so I may end up freezing a whole lot of crop right at harvest for live rosin so that will free up considerable space that I won't have to dedicate to drying. We'll see.

This is some weed that has been flowering for 50 days. It came to me in a cup labeled wedding cake. I've never had wedding cake, but there is nothing cakey about it and it doesn't match any descriptions I've read. It is incredibly orange/citrus smelling and tasting and turns very purple. It makes great hash and everyone really seems to love it. I've been calling it purple orange.

I just cranked the lights up a bit yesterday so these are getting around 1050ppfd now. I thought it may be pushing it just a tad, but their leaves don't seem to be minding at all

edit: my bad, that plant has been flowering for 44 days.

 

[chilliwilli]

ROOT KNOT FUCKING NEMATODES

Did you get rid of them? I had these fuckers too and made a soil change. Some spp of them even survive freezing and the only sure working treatmend is steaming the soil or in the fields a 7 year grow break. Not sure where i got them but i suspect the organic garlic, onions or shallot i planted as companion.

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[Lapides]

Did you get rid of them? I had these fuckers too and made a soil change. Some spp of them even survive freezing and the only sure working treatmend is steaming the soil or in the fields a 7 year grow break. Not sure where i got them but i suspect the organic garlic, onions or shallot i planted as companion.

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Bro, you could have just told me, "Yeah i had them fuckers too, fuck them," but no. i had erased the memory of those vile looking roots for, what i thought was, forever. and here you go posting that nightmare fuel right here in my thread

No, i never did get rid of them. in fact, i had to start my soil over TWICE because i forgot i had plants vegging in still-tainted soil and i transplanted them into the new clean soil. sheesh, talk about my head not being in the game.

 

[Lapides]

to add to that, i believe i got mine after making an aact from my worm bin that i kept outside.

i hadn't any problems keeping the bin outside, but after the nematodes, I've since started new worm bins inside and replenish them with bagged lobster compost instead of the yard waste compost i was making.

and i don't make teas anymore!!!

 

[chilliwilli]

Sorry didn't want to trigger u.